Edith Jones

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Edith Hollan Jones (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1949) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, having been nominated by President Ronald Reagan on February 27, 1985, and confirmed by the United States Senate on April 3, 1985.

Jones graduated from Cornell University in 1971. Jones received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law in 1974. She was in private practice in Houston, Texas from 1974 until 1985.

Jones has been mentioned frequently as being on the list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States.